Using Adobe Premiere Pro, I edited each video in this playlist as part of a series for WonderRoot's CSA (Community Supported Art) program in March 2016. All of the 6 artists participating in this season's program partnered with each other and conducted a short interview of their personal aesthetics, stories, and plans for the Season 08 CSA. For more information on WonderRoot and the CSA, click here!
This video was a personal project created in November 2015 to celebrate the birthday of my best friend, Liz, who turned 23 years old in November 2015. About a week before her birthday, I had friends and family (and even her dog!) send me "selfie" videos of them wishing her happy birthday. After compiling the clips, I set them to an already existing YouTube video of Katy Perry's "Birthday" song. I do not own that video and used it for entertainment purposes only. This video was a great project for me to practice split screening footage and volume controls in Adobe Premiere Pro.
During the fall 2015 semester, I took a course on experimental film. For our midterm project, we were to individually create a video encompassing the characteristics or methods employed by previous avant garde filmmakers (from an historical perspective, we had studied up to the 1960s in experimental film culture at this point.)
I was particularly interested in works by artists such as Len Lye and Oskar Fischinger. In the 1930s, (!!!) these men pioneered visual music as we know it today and the painstaking process by which they created their work is what inspired me to create my own. I filmed each sequence using my iPhone 6 over the course of two days and every piece of street art shown is located in Atlanta, GA. I then edited the clips in Adobe Premiere Pro in the style of a music video, set to Santigold’s popular song, “Disparate Youth.”
This was my first time working with Adobe After Effects but, like Lye, I edited each and every frame by (in my case, digital) hand. For more on how I completed this process, please check out the associated mid-term paper: “Temporary View” which discusses the ephemeralness of the film’s lines as an analogy for the ephemeralness of street art, a form of public graffiti whose exhibition dates are almost always uncertain.
[Warning: explicit lyrics] For my Introduction to Film Production course (Fall 2015), we studied conventional music videos, their traits, etc. and worked with Adobe Premiere Pro to edit the music and video. “Started from the Bottom” seemed most appropriate for this piece because it has both a fluid rhythm to it and a strong baseline. I had a lot of fun with the song itself, intentionally creating visual puns and incorporating classic music video characteristics.